Bug 390863

Summary:	x11-misc/lightdm needs /etc/pam.d/lightdm-autologin file for autologin
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ben Kohler <bkohler>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Markos Chandras (RETIRED) <hwoarang>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	croepha
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	lightdm-autologin sample file

Description Ben Kohler gentoo-dev

2011-11-17 19:30:20 UTC

x11-misc/lightdm-1.0.6-r2, in its freshly-emerged state, cannot autologin, even after enabling the proper option(s) in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.  I looked at a couple of bugs on launchpad & debian, and they mention that /etc/pam.d/lightdm-autologin is required, you can copy one from /etc/pam.d/gdm-autologin if you have gdm installed.

And I can confirm this, copying the file into place, and having autologin-user=foo in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf does work for autologins.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge =x11-misc/lightdm-1.0.6-r2
2. set autologin-user=foo in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
3. start lightdm via the xdm init script
Actual Results:  
lightdm starts, does not log in

Expected Results:  
autologin user foo

Comment 1 Ben Kohler gentoo-dev

2011-11-17 19:31:09 UTC

Created attachment 292937 [details]
lightdm-autologin sample file

Copied from a working gdm3 setup

Comment 2 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-11-19 20:27:32 UTC

This should be fixed in 1.0.6-r3